A new trend in environmental policy has emerged in the 1990’s. This trend is the voluntary participation of business in environmental protection and problem-solving. So-called environmental management system principles and standards are being developed and certified in many countries. A reasonable number of corporations have already introduced this system. Voluntary agreements between industry ...

A meaningful economic literature examines businesses’ environmental management efforts expended during the economic-political transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Over a similar time frame as this transition, many firms in developed countries were integrating environmental components into their business strategies and finding this integration profitable. A growi...

Ecological environment is the material base of the development of ecotourism. The ecotourism cannot develop well without high quality ecotourism environment. The goal of ecotourism development is to protect ecological environment, which is also the essential characteristic of ecotourism different from other kind of tourism. This paper tries to discuss the community participation in environmenta...

Environmental management at nature-based tourism destinations includes a private and a public component. The former refers to voluntary environmental protection activities carried out by individual (and groups of) tourism operators. These activities are motivated by the dependence of the product provided by the tourism industry on the quality of the natural environment. Public sector management...

PUTTING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTORS CENTRE STAGE For Strategic Environmental Management Analysis (SEMA), the most crucial role in change towards sustainability is played by “environmental actors” i.e., those who are moved by specific environmental concerns and urge other actors on to change. The strategies they may use, the contexts and conditions in which they may succeed, are considered here to be t...